Talk:Rameswaram

Removing content
User:24.136.24.38, please do not remove the introduction sentence. And don't keep reverting me. Rameswaram is first a town in India. And then a piligrimage site. Please explain. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 01:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Moving content to Ramanathaswamy BILLU Temple, Rameswaram
I'm moving most of the temple related contents to the temple article. I could revert it back, if any of the editors find it important to stay in the temple. This way, we can both talk about the town in a secular way and be able to talk about the temple in a religious way. Balajiviswanathan 20:43, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Tombs of Cain & Abel
Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar mentions that the purported tombs of Cain and Abel are located here. Can anyone confirm this? Brutannica (talk) 07:56, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

beach of rameswaram
Guys, i have added description about rameswaram beach in the geography paragraph. Anyone please provide suitable links to support that. I couldn't find any references. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.196.206.222 (talk) 11:42, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

GA????
I really wonder how this article managed to clear the GAR. The article lacks any section on "History" and thus clearly fails criteria no 3. The article lacks extremely important facts like when the temple was built (in historical times). P. S. I am not pointing out something totally obscure- there are plenty of good, reliable sources on the history of Rameswaram. Secondly, two of the images in the infobox are of places quite outside the municipal limits of Rameswaram town. (One of them, uploaded by me, is of fishing boats near Pamban town which is situated on the western edge of Pamban Island and outside Rameswaram town. The other is of Ramban Railway Bridge which is no-way connected to Rameswaram town).- Ravi My Tea Kadai 02:53, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree with you about History.
 * "when the temple was built (in historical times)" is covered - "The temple in its current structure was built during the 12th century by Pandya Dynasty." Establishment of the temple is difficult to determine. However, earliest known reference can be put in a brief sentence or two.
 * Images, as well as text of places outside Rameswaram should be removed. Dhanushkodi section can be dropped as outside the town. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 12:50, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Dhanuskodi is part of Rameswaram municipality. Ssriram mt (talk) 18:50, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * will expand on history + that of the temple.
 * pamban bridge is the only land link - most of the british historic links speak about the lack of transport infra as one of the reasons making it inaccessible(possibly to quote the importance of the bridge they constructed too). In the places where it is mentioned, the source of connection is mentioned - prefer to retain it.
 * it has to be noted that unlike other towns which had historical references within the same boundary as of the municipal limits now, Rameswaram has always remained synonymous with its neighbours. Dhanuskodi was one by on its own before 1964, but almost non-existent now.
 * reg the montage image - the image of boat has wrong description as that of Rameswaram. - will remove it.Ssriram mt (talk) 14:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)


 * It would be good if you can create a separate section on "History". The temple (I guess) was extensively renovated in the 1890s by Bhaskara Sethupathi. I'll search for the sources and provide them.- Ravi My Tea Kadai 16:20, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅. Ssriram mt (talk) 18:50, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

"Pamban Island" in the lead is not linked. Besides, in "Municipal Administration" section, there might be unnecessary capitalizations - like, municipality and panchayat union in "According to the Madras Presidency Panchayat Act of 1885, Rameswaram was declared a Panchyat Union during British times. It became a township during 1958 and was declared a Municipality in 2004."- Ravi My Tea Kadai 03:14, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Corrected. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 12:50, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I request the participants to cooperate with me in rectifying these shortcomings.- Ravi My Tea Kadai 11:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Apart from the above discussed issues, there are a few MOS issues:
 * Newspaper references like Hindu and TOI should be italicized.


 * Why "Reliance networks" is italicized?


 * In FN #70, there is a minor issue with respect to page number(s)

&mdash; Vensatry (Ping me)  17:26, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I checked links.. which one is not working?Ssriram mt (talk)

Anachronisms
An example: "The major religion followed in Rameswaram is Hinduism. Being a Hindu pilgrimage centre, majority of the visitor to Rameswaram are Hindus. There is a minority of Christians, predominantly from the fishing community of the region"

Aside from the obvious poor English phrasing, the above is sourced to a work published in 1882, which wasn't reliable then and certainly cannot be used to verify a set of statements formed in the present tense. Worse still, the Sfn link doesn't work. - Sitush (talk) 21:02, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Or "With 22km of dredging remaining, the project is currently held by a Supreme Court order seeking the Government to clarify the status of the bridge as a national monument[88]." In this statement there is a WP:REFPUNCT problem, a lack of precision in stating which government, a broken Sfn and a lack of time context, such as use of the As of template. The convert template would probably not have been amiss either. No offence intended, but such things as these, when added to the numerous points above, make me wonder whether this should ever have passed GA. - Sitush (talk) 21:06, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * The point(s) in the previous paras is addressed. The references to small towns like Rameswaram are always sparse(and historic/tourism oriented) - the base point is - it is a Hindu religous town. I am not leaving things to assumption here, but a rough check on the visitor base with the number of state run buses and trains would prove the volume of visitors for a town with a population of 35k.  I will fix other issues pointed out. Ssriram mt (talk) 22:59, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Ssriram mt, firstly, please accept my apologies. For some reason I have got drawn into two recent GAs of which you were a major contributor. It is not a witch-hunt and in fact I think that you asked me to assist with the other article in the run up to the GA nom (and I said that I didn't have the time or the expertise re: geographic articles). I really do appreciate the considerable effort that you have put into this stuff. I also note that the GA reviews for both articles involve several different people who have a decent amount of experience. I've never reviewed a GA nom and I accept that it is easy to criticise, which is perhaps how my comments come across. All of that said, and hopefully accepted, there are real problems here and at the other place. I realise that the standards are not those of featured articles but there are numerous quite serious issues per the criteria. No-one's fault as such because both articles are way, way better than once they were. "Rough checks" mean nothing, especially when it involves original research of passenger statistics. And the fact that refs for small towns are sparse is not an excuse: WP:V is one of the Five Pillars - if you cannot source it reliably, it should not be here. - Sitush (talk) 23:36, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * These are rewritten - a set of references induced. Ssriram mt (talk) 13:05, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Montage
The montage doesn't look good, especially with so much gap between the images. Any suggestions? -Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:28, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It is not a gap, but a skyline. I will modify it. Ssriram mt (talk) 13:06, 23 September 2012 (UTC)